Rene Char wrote somewhere, apropos poetry, that there are those who create and those who discover; they are too completely different worlds. Photogra….

Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation - everything except a stage set..

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity..

A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer..

Photography is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It's a way of life..

In photography, the smallest thing can become a big subject, an insignificant human detail can become a leitmotiv. We see and we make seen as a witne….

As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is a vestige of a face, a face in transit. ….

In photography, you've got to be quick, quick, quick, quick...Like an animal and a prey..

Photographier: c'est mettre sur la meme ligne de mire la tete, l'oeil et le coeur..

There is no closed figure in nature. Every shape participates with another. No one thing is independent of another, and one thing rhymes with another….

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event..

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of vis….

If, in making a portrait, you hope to grasp the interior silence of a willing victim, it's very difficult, but you must somehow position the camera b….

Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Th….

Pictures, regardless of how they are created and recreated, are intended to be looked at. This brings to the forefront not the technology of imaging,….

In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv..

I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourse….

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image b….

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation..

Nobody takes photographs, photographs take you..

Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itse….